Discussion of twitter seems to be all the rage at the moment, so I thought I'd chip in, again.

I posted something a while back about "getting" twitter, and I have to say that whilst I am finding it worthwhile for myself, I can still understand why some people think it's just another time sucking social black hole.

I now spend more time than I would prefer each day keeping an eye on my twitter feed, I use Twhirl.org, so it "beeps" me when there is something new, which does help.

Neil Shearing posted an "anti twitter" post recdently on his blog: -
http://www.neilshearing.com/2008/05/02/is-twitter-just-bird-chat-for-people-with-add/

and the ironic thing is that most of the replies he got to the post came from someone posting the link to his post on twitter...

Now Neil does fire of some fairly strong points about why and how twitter can be a waste of time, but if you read his post, and the replies you'll notice that he actually mentions one of the reasons I enjoy twitter: -  Read more... (611 words, 1 image, estimated 2:27 mins reading time)

I'm still not sure I do..</p>

I've been using Twitter on and off for a couple of weeks now, I'm still updating on a fairly sporadic basis I've not quite got in to a habit yet, although adding the Twitter plugin to this blog has helped to remind me.

I actually signed up for an account at the end of Jan, but when I logged to check it out, I really didn't get it..

It was only thanks to Matt Backak  deciding to "follow" me that I went back for another look, partly because I had no idea you could "follow" someone, and partly because I had no idea how Matt had found me or would want to follow my "Twitters", I still don't know why..

I checked out Matt's page and suddenly "got" the idea of following someone else's twitter's so promptly started "following" a whole bunch of people who's name's I recognized and suddenly started to "get" it, a bit, although it does seem that people use it quite differently.